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Quote by Julia Child
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think its hard for young people today, dont you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country. – Julia Child

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When I got to France I realized I didnt know very much about food at all. Id never had a real cake. Id had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesnt have anything like that in it – its all egg power. – Julia Child

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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say him rather than her. Maybe its because of my generation, but I dont like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. – Julia Child

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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows theres no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. Thats all crap. – Christopher Hitchens

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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. – Al Gore

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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. – Lester B. Pearson

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